Second featured quiz with the word whammy(ies) in the title, yes. But this quiz was the first to feature whammies, ushering in its first introduction in late November.
i don't know if this can be changed per quiz or it's a feature of whammies in general, but i don't think entering the same whammy twice should lose you two lives - at least, not for this quiz. you haven't got three wrong answers, you've just typed one again by mistake (and here that's just one character so a lot easier to do) - maybe you haven't understood the rules, or missed the little symbol.
and you could argue that being vigilant to that sort of thing is part of the quiz, so i'm interested to hear what others would say, but to me it feels overly harsh
5 seconds, no whammies. Knowing Etaoin shrdlu! is useful for solving cryptograms and interesting for anyone passingly interested in publishing history.
Just a suggestion, could the whammy icon be redesigned since it really isn't clear what they are. Perhaps they could be a pixelated heart?
(in that order)
ETAONRISHDLFMUGY...and then the rest ending in X Q and Z in some order.
This has always served me well in any puzzles or trivia that involves letter frequency.
Scrabble is a bit off from this, since scrabble deals with WORDS, and in particular, CROSS ATTACHED words--not ENGLISH TEXT.
and you could argue that being vigilant to that sort of thing is part of the quiz, so i'm interested to hear what others would say, but to me it feels overly harsh
Thought M, L, G, P would appear in more words than H but it's based on recurrence in text. I think M is the most common in the title of this quiz!